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Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
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To know where a thing is we must have found it.
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Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.
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